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News flash; Washington still loves autocrats in the Middle East
New Yorker editor David Remnick writes about the uprisings in Egypt and after acknowledging the corruption of the Israeli occupation of Palestine next door issues the following utterly illogical statement: …The United States has long ceased to be a puppet-master among the Arab states, if it ever was. Really? Tell that to the people of…
Obama on Mubarak; he ain’t so bad really
Barack Obama on Mubarak when speaking to Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly: “He’s been a good partner in relation to the peace with Israel. And with some counter-terrorism.” What’s this code for? We like how he’s repressed the Palestinians and Hamas and tortured “terror suspects” for us: Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com
Indyk mumbles something about democracy in Arab world; Egyptians laugh
Lesson number one; never ask a Zionist lobbyist to talk honestly about American or Israeli aims in the Middle East because for them, real democracy is a danger to maintaining Israeli dominance.
Australia sees the Middle East as its Zionist mates tell them
The Middle East is in turmoil and yet here’s the Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd, speaking a few days ago in Greece, on what he thinks the region should look like. Nearly everything is reactive and the “peace process” between Israel and the Palestinians should continue as if it’s nearly achieved resolution. Somebody should tell…
No wonder Egyptians don’t trust the West, why should they?
Robert Fisk on the infantile comments of our leaders towards the Egyptian streets. Perhaps it’s time to throw out our democratically-elected men with some serious people. They couldn’t be much more obsequious: Only when the power of youth and technology forced this docile Egyptian population to grow up and stage its inevitable revolt did it…
America isn’t leaving Iraq for years to come
Don’t believe the political and media hype that Washington is on its way out. Quite the opposite, explains private military contractor writer David Isenberg: You thought private security and military contractors were downsizing in Iraq? Think again. On February 1 the… Senate Foreign Relations Committee released a report “Iraq: The Transition from a Military Mission…
Power to the Egyptian people in song
Don’t tell Washington or Israel; the Egyptian people don’t care what you want in their country:
Cables of a failed war
Just one of the latest Wikileaks-related cables, this one from London in 2009: Prime Minister Brown was “very pleased” by President Obama’s December 1 speech describing the way forward in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and HMG would like U.S. and UK public statements to remain in synch, Philip Barton, Director, Afghanistan and Pakistan, in the Cabinet…
We stand with Assange in Australia
I attended this Wikileaks rally in Sydney to show support for Julian Assange and what Wikileaks stands for: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has the support of the “greatest minds in the world”, according to his stepfather Brett Assange. Speaking at a rally held at Sydney’s Town Hall in support of the 39-year-old Australian, Mr Assange…